music industry

"The entertainment cartels, with the Bush administration tucked in tight behind them, are well pleased with themselves.

They’ve managed to close down yet another competitor which threatened their failing efforts to gain control of how, and by whom, ‘product’ is distributed online.

AllofMP3.com, the Russian download site which, unlike iTunes, and the tiny handful of other corporate download sites, all indelibly marked by their complete failure to attract online music lovers, was offering music at prices people could afford, is offline." --

Brendan Ballou of Public Knowledge writes: "I’m just back from the iCommons summit in Dubrovnic, which brought together most of the leaders in the international Creative Commons movement. By far the most interesting presentations at the conference, at least for me, were those by new music companies that are embracing P2P file sharing, not fight ing it, and trying to earn a profit in the process. If these companies survive, or at least if their business models do, maybe we’ll finally see an end to the war between the music industry and its consum